Alexander Gelfand
National News
- Jewish Women Lag Behind Men in Promotion and Pay
- Fiscal Challenges Face Federations
- On Campus, a Divide Over ‘Pro-Israel’
Community News
- In Mayoral Race, N.Y. Jews Back Bloomberg
- Lévi-Strauss: He Changed How We See Culture, but Ignored His Own
- For Pets, a Temporary Shelter From the Storm
International News
- U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians
- HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin
- Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic
Israel News
- Palestinian Workers Plan To Sue Settlement, Seek To Fall Under Israeli Law
- Losing Support and Suffering Defections, Labor Party Is in a ‘Struggle for Life’
- British Christians Push Repentance for Nation’s Conduct During Mandate
Arts & Culture
- Talmud vs. Anna Akhmatova
- Transforming the Y
- Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism
- EnviroJews Avant La Lettre
- Squeezing the Cultural and Historical Juice Out of Love in ‘Jaffa’
- Brutally Frank
Fast Forward
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
- The Doctor Who Had the Chutzpah To Write Music
- Nine Faiths, One Vegan Lunch at Windsor Castle
- High School Reunion
- Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time
- Saving Pastrami on Rye
The Shmooze
- First Israeli NBA Player Scores Big
- The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish
- Jon & Shmuley Plus Another Media Circus
- Is Your Recipe Worth $25,000?
- Hummus Wars
- The L.A. Times: ‘Jewish Guys Heart Shiksas’
Forward Forum
- The Goldstone Standard
- The World That Jewish Veterans Built
- What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t
- Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?
- Calming the Temple Mount
- A Terrorist Who Was Not Alone
Editorial
Art Pop Indie Rock Meets Midrash
By Alexander Gelfand
Everything Old is New Again
By Alexander Gelfand
Piano Man
By Alexander Gelfand
Following a Musical Silk Road to Central Asia
By Alexander Gelfand
A series of happy accidents. That, in a nutshell, is how 32-year-old saxophonist and scholar Evan Rapport describes the arc of his career — a career that began in the nightclubs of Maryland and ultimately carried him to the Bukharian Jewish enclaves of New York City.Read More
Bending Traditions in Ghana
By Alexander Gelfand
- Chance Meeting Yields Harmonious Collaboration
- A Jewish Pop Band Worth the Wait
- Horn of Plenty
- Listening In to the Field of Jewish Pop, High and Low
- A Melody of Jewish Meditation
- Songbook Recaptures Lost Melodies
- Symposium Seeks To Save Yiddish Dance
- A Tale of Three Cities: Sephardic Music From New York, Amsterdam and London
- A Musical Midrashist
- Israel’s Jazz Messengers
- Lenny Bruce’s Mild-Mannered Heirs
- The Jewish Gypsy
- The Anti-‘Fiddler’
- Setting Celan To Music
- Whither Klezmer?
- She’s Still Got the Beat
- Singer, Sung
- A Perfect Pairing Of Worker and Work
- Writing the Book on Klezmer
- Culinary Adventures
- Lyrics Sparkle in Yiddish ‘Pirates of Penzance’
- A Cantor’s Tale
- The Restless Opera Company
- Blitzkrieg Flop
- Hip Hop as Conflict Resolution
- Making Old Music Seem Very New Again
- Remembering How the Yiddish Theater Turned Into Broadway
- A Mosaic of Jewish Music in America
- Folk or Not, Sephardic Music for the Ages
- A Gem Among Giants
- From a Popular Composer, More Than Meets the Ear
- Trying To Make Sephardic Music as Hip as Klezmer
- One Man Chronicles Centuries of Synagogue Music
- Interfaith Music Hits Disparate Notes
- Exploring Latin Music, In and Out of the Ivory Tower
- Rashanim Offers a Series of Surprises
- Beyond Klezmer: Jewish Music Today
- Two Albums Offer Gems of Gypsy Melodies
- Klezmer via Kingston
- Tango: Not Jewish, But Not 100% Not Jewish
- ‘Chassidic’ Jazzman Strives for Authenticity
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